The last episode of "Breaking Bad" produced extensive social media traffic on Sept. 29, with some three million users producing some 5.5 million posts and interactions related to the show on Facebook.
"It looks like all four of the networks have gotten out of the starting gate with at least one promising hit," says Brad Adgate, senior VP of research at Horizon Media.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is working on a bill that would prevent the major professional sports leagues from allowing games to be blacked out during retransmission-consent disputes or other programming impasses.
As CC and Warner Music put it, this deal aligns their mutual interests "in driving digital growth, increasing radio listenership, breaking new music and creating new marketing opportunities for established artists."